Movember 2012: Kingsmeadow School staff get lippy

TEACHERS’ taches will be a sore subject this month after a group of Tyneside educators signed up for Movember.

Lewis Thompson, left, and Ian Connorton from Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School

TEACHERS’ taches will be a sore subject this month after a group of Tyneside educators signed up for Movember.

Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School in Gateshead has gathered a team of fundraisers who have agreed to ditch the razors all month to raise awareness of men’s health.

Spearheaded by Lewis Thompson and Ian Connorton, 12 staff at the school are now almost halfway through their challenge to grow a moustache for the whole of November.

Lewis, 33, a librarian at the school, said: “A couple of friends of mine have done it in the past and raised a massive amount of money so I spoke to a few colleagues a couple of months ago and we decided that come November we would try to do it.”

They have set a target of raising £500 between them and have already brought in £200.

But their efforts are two-fold as it’s not just raising money for men’s health charities, particularly prostate cancer, that they’re focusing their attentions on.

Lewis, who lives in Durham, said: “A lot of press is given to things like breast cancer and cervical cancer but as far as I can ascertain men’s health is hardly ever touched upon so we’re mainly trying to raise awareness towards it.”

The students at the school have been getting behind their teachers and will even have a say in the style of moustaches they grow.

“The head teacher was kind enough to let us take over the assembly the first week of term with every year group where we told them about what we were doing, why and what we wanted to raise,” said Lewis.

To donate to the school’s team, search for Kingsmeadow School on the Movember website, www.uk.movember.com

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